The Chinese Wall legal strategy is to have Team A produce a specification and Team B produce an implementation.

If these guys can't show a specification they're screwed.

Claiming there must have been one in abstract Platonic space inside the LLM network black box isn't going to convince a Court.

So do the work of making an actual specification generator. Then write a coder. It's not impossible. You still won't get updates, fixes, support, community, or features added. The guys who just steal ffmpeg won't even bother. The AGPL haters might bite.

Also, he seems quite angry.

When gas hits $10 there may be too much pressure to bring in BYD to stop it. At least atomic energy isn't more sensitive to global price shocks than it needs to be (EPA being the champion of high energy prices).

Automated lights-out factories are a total game changer and basically nobody cares if domestic auto workers lose their jobs due to sales collapse or to automation. It didn't have to be this way but Kissinger sold out Middle America so GM became a sales tactic for GMAC loans. We'd need a time machine to stop the collapse of the US auto industry at this point. Or a total fascist takeover of industry and crippling tariffs (not ruling this out).

Toyota and Datsun used to be shit brands fifty years ago. Now we have Lexus and Infinity. Heck we had those 20 years after they were shit brands.

But Tundra engines are getting famous now for lasting 6000 miles before blowing up, so perhaps the torch is being passed.

Yes, "to bring Jesus back".

They actually believe this. Like, you can spend money to get God to change his calendar.

We don't have to believe it - we only need to understand that they believe it. Red heifers, Gog and Magog, Third Temple, they jump up and down and speak in tongues when you talk about it.

Meanwhile Americans spend 60% of their wages on taxes and regulations and don't complain. They vote for anti-war, anti-spending candidates and get the shaft after elections. $10 gas might actually change things.

>Now how about finding a way to do it with silicon-based rather than lithium-based batteries so that we're not using costly mines to create the batteries?

Why silicon rather than sodium?

Sodium is right under lithium in Group 1.

>> The company also announced plans to begin mass delivery of sodium-ion batteries in the fourth quarter. Sodium-ion technology is seen as a lower-cost alternative that could reduce dependence on lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

> Then they just need to keep doing that for the new code.

"You Insensitive Claude, why haven't you made Thunderbird multi-threaded yet?"

(there appears to be evidence of significant limitations in its understanding of complex code)

> Is it appropriate to cite the old proverb, "Physician, heal thyself" here?

Years before the physician was a fentanyl addict living in a cardboard box on the street you would have been compassionate to do so.

At some point you just can't help people who don't want to be helped.

It's sad because the physician was once a happy baby who gave his mother delight. So much waste of care and resources.

What's ironic is that feeds his megalomania. Extreme-ego types love that their detractors are thinking about them all the time.

"Living rent-free" is the ultimate payoff.

Best to ignore them as much as possible.

Instead of 10 activations limit it to n number of sync chains.

Pair the activation authorization to the hash of a chain code or whatever on the Brave activation server.

Reduce the number to 5, that's fine.

A good number of privacy folks have extra devices to run certain apps. You might trust Brave and have them all synced but not some odd banking apps or dating apps or stuff work makes you have.

A decent used phone can be had for $50; keeping all those apps on one device seems nuts.

5 sync chains would effectively be a family license around here. Sounds like a good deal at $60.

Having a license wear out because your phone needed a factory reset or went in for service just doesn't make sense.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.

These are the new Intolerable Acts.

There's a reason you learned how to be a Marine. "Foreign and domestic."

This seems to be the open-access link but in searching for that I saw another article from the authors about the small intestine metabolizing fructose into glucose.

So it's probably more complex than we thought. Another 5-6-fructase pathway, I'd guess, haven't read it yet.

It was an unusual campaign in that 95% of campaign promises weren't not just unfulfilled but 180* opposite of policy. Ultimate con man.

But now that Philippines is nearly out of oil China has made overtures to take care of their oil needs which have been defacto accepted.

The quid pro quo isn't stated yet but US caused their oil crisis so this announcement isn't real.

What an odd thing to say.

I rip my DVD and Bluray discs to a NAS and play them with Jellyfin. There's not even an optical player near a TV anymore. The last one died in about 2008.

But I have put some of those files on USB before for the kids.

Used Blurays are about $5 usually and much better quality than any streaming service rental.

The Onn is an excellent device for the money and most questionable aspects can be disabled or piholed. Jellyfin and SmartTube and Projectivy are all fine.

I should go see if LineageOS has added any new low-power devices in the past year. That's the best option but nothing supported was for sale when I last looked.

Exactly.

Somebody said they spent a lot of time and money coming up with a new "nonbinary" mascot.

I started using Firefox over 20 years ago and never had any idea whether the fox was male or female. Since thunderbirds are fictional I'm not sure about the sexual dimorphism of their plumage.

It's hard to understand how they think these days. At least Ladybird will offer a second rendering engine when the bubble pops. Engineering-focused software organizations used to be the norm.

I guess a Ladybird is a female, not that it matters at all. The AI should have Majel Barret's voice anyway.